Key facts
- Native to
- Badakhshan Province , Afghanistan
- Ethnicity
- Munji
- Native speakers
- 5,300 (2008)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Southeastern Shughni-Yazghulami-Munji Munji-Yidgha Munji
- Writing system
- Perso-Arabic script
- Iso 639 3
- mnj
- Glottolog
- munj1244
- Elp
- Munji
- Linguasphere
- 58-ABD-ba
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Country
- Afghanistan
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 3770
- topic's main category
- Category:Munji language
- indigenous to
- Maidan Wardak Province
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Encyclopedic overview
The Munji language (Persian: مونجی, Pashto: مونجی), also known as Munjani (Persian: مونجانی, Pashto: مونجی ژبه, Munji: منجاني ألڤزأن), Munjhan (مونجهان), and the Munjiwar language, is a Pamir language spoken in the Munjan valley in the Kuran wa Munjan district of the Badakhshan province in northeast Afghanistan. It is similar to the Yidgha language, which is spoken in the Upper Lotkoh Valley of Chitral, west of Garam Chashma in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Speakers
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Munji” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.